About Me

The Best Ad Critic In The World™ (™ pending), also a damn good copywriter with 20+ years experience in NYC. Hire me for your in-house creative department, and I will help you make better, funnier, more interesting, and more effective ads/branded content. Samples/resume available upon request. Salary request is very reasonable.

I grew up in the United Church of Canada. You may remember them from such ads as "Creepy Jesus Claus"...

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I'm no longer a church-goer, or even a believer, but I still support and love the UCC for their non-dogmatic philosophy and social justice work. (Also, my mom is their democratic equivalent of a Bishop!)

The real Albert Einstein never engaged in this display of semantic game-playing, it's an urban legend. An old one at that. It's a parlor trick that neither proves nor disproves the existence of god, and the faulty premise is based on Augustine's theodicy. For Augustine, evil came about as a direct result of the misuse of free will. With that I conclude free will is evil, do what God says at all times, including slaying people who worship the moon by " stone them with stones, till they die." Nightnight. ;)

The advertising reflects the situation in Macedonia, where three religions are revived. Macedonia was a part of former Yugoslavia, where ideology of communism and socialism has reigned (Until about 15 years ago). Macedonia is Orthodox Christian, but in this country are living also Catholics and Muslims. Each of these religious groups insist on religious lessons in schools. I guess here is the solution offered by the state in order to avoid conflicts. Albert Einstein, here in advertising, is out of place. Albert was originally Jewish . He said once about the faith and God (his answer to the letter from rabbi Herbert Goldstein - New York 1929): “I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the legal harmony of the being. Not in a God, who spend his time on with the fate and actions of men. “ The whole message of this Ad can be misinterpreted. It is simply a mirror image of the inner conflict that all former communist and socialist countries have: want to be away from communism - be back to religion and tradition.

I don´t think that God would be in the advertising business at All. #copyranterI think there was not a decisive cultural note, but “orchestra” had to choose a diplomatic and impartial piece. And Albert was named as ambassador.I think Moses, Jesus and Mohammed at a round table I would like more. :-)

Religionscience in any religion is not easy studies, but I doubt that such small children should have to do in school with them.My son was two years in a Protestant (German) kindergarten. He has brought home sometimes strange books, with illustrations, where St. Peter is sitting in the dungeon. OK, my son was 3.5 - and I think, too young for this.